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Prof. W. R. Dudley of Cornell is expected in California in De- 
cember to take charge of the department of Phanerogamic Botany 
at Stanford University. 
Miss Faustina Butler, in charge of the World’s Fair exhibit of 
California Wild Flowers, would be grateful for seeds, bulbs, etc., of 
our showy wild flowers. Address, care of World’s Fair Commis- 
sion, Flood Building, San Francisco. 
Miss E. Cannon, 1402 Bush St., San Francisco, wishes to dispose 
of her herbarium of named Californian plants; some hundreds 
mounted on large-sized sheets, but the greater part unmounted. 
Botaniska Notiser, 1891, Part 4, 174, has the following note upon 
Cystopteris Benitzii Dorfler: ‘ ‘According to Botan. Centralblatt 1891, 
nr. 25, pp- 333-4, there is to be found in C. Beenitz’s Herbarium 
Europzeum under nr. 6,510 a new Cystopteris species distributed 
and described under the name of C. Benitzii Dorfler. While the 
spores of C. fragtlis Bernh. are closely covered with pointed teeth, 
the new species possesses spores which are perfectly smooth with- 
out signs of teeth, only here and there furnished with isolated ir- 
regular, folded ridges or ‘combs.’ The specimens were found on 
slate rocks in the vicinity of Kongswold Dovre in Norway. The 
species is besides only known by its namer from San Bernardino in 
South California. Among the many specimens in the herbarium 
of the Lund University no one agrees with the above description 
except one with the following: ‘ C. fragilis lobulato-dentata Wilde. 
Elstad, in crevices close to a small brook 3/7, 1865, A. Falck.’ Elstad 
ss situated in Gudbransdalen. The value of this new species must 
be decided by future investigations.” 
If species of ferns are to be founded upon markings of the surface 
of the spores a fertile field is prepared for the species maker. The 
numerous specimens of C. fragilis in the herbarium of the California 
Academy of Sciences show every gradation of spore markings, 
from mere irregular reticulations to the ordinary echinate form. 
One example from Santa Clara County is covered with irregular 
_ warty projections. Specimens from Rhode Island and from Hawai 
he description of C. Benilzti, and others from 
agree exactly with t 
Sierra Mojada, Colorado, are both reticulated and echinate. | 
d under the name 
The Harvard Herbarium has been reorganize 
of the “Gray Herbarium of Harvard University,” in charge of Dr. B. 
